Cook Medical | CL604/605 Pilot

The Opportunity

Cook Shared Service, a distinguished leader in corporate operations, is seeking an exceptionally qualified and highly professional Corporate Pilot to join its dedicated aviation team based in Bloomington, IN. This critical role involves safely and efficiently operating company aircraft under varying conditions (day, night, instrument flight rules) to facilitate essential personnel, equipment, and supply transport. The Pilot must exercise extreme care and superior judgment to ensure the safety of passengers and company assets, strictly adhering to all Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), and internal company regulations (S.O.P.’s).

Essential Corporate Pilot Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for comprehensive flight management, passenger service, and regulatory compliance, including:

• Superior Passenger Services: Acquainting passengers with aircraft cabin equipment and emergency procedures, ensuring passenger comfort, assisting with baggage handling, and coordinating surface transportation logistics. The Pilot must maintain absolute passenger and business confidentiality regarding company aircraft utilization.
• Comprehensive Flight Planning: Conducting meticulous studies of meteorological data to determine flight advisability, selecting optimal routings and altitudes for maximum passenger comfort and safety, verifying airport and airway status, and accurately completing and filing flight plans with FAA facilities.
• Operational Oversight and Safety: Supervising the loading of passengers, baggage, and freight, and rigorously determining that aircraft performance data, weight, and balance calculations are within certifiable limits for safe operation.
• Pre-Flight & Post-Flight Integrity: Completing thorough pre-flight inspections, checking all consumables (fuel, oil, anti-icing fluids), ensuring adequate emergency supplies are aboard, and confirming the aircraft is airworthy in accordance with all regulatory standards. The Pilot also conducts detailed post-flight inspections, reporting all malfunctions and operational data to the maintenance section.
• Logistical and Administrative Compliance: Coordinating flight details with operational and scheduling personnel, advising passengers of arrival/departure times, issuing necessary purchase orders, signing for contracted fees and services away from the home base, and ensuring the proper servicing and protection of company aircraft and equipment.
• Regulatory Documentation: Diligently completing and filing all required FAA records, flight reports, and maintaining accurate personal flight logs and records.
• Knowledge Maintenance: Maintaining a thorough and current knowledge of FAA regulations, air traffic control procedures, communications frequencies, air traffic techniques, and all aircraft flight operations and systems manuals. The Pilot must proactively study industry developments and procedures.
• Non-Flying Duties: Performing other assigned aviation-related, non-flying duties as required by the Company.

Minimum Qualifications and Experience

Candidates must satisfy the following minimum requirements:

• Flight Hours: A minimum of 3,000 hours total flight time is required, including 1,000 hours Turbine Pilot in Command (PIC), 500 hours jet time, and 200 hours logged within the last 12 months.
• Education: An Associates degree or equivalent is required.
• Certifications: Possession of a current 1st Class FAA Medical Certificate is mandatory. An FAA Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) certificate with a multi-engine endorsement is required.
• Compliance: The candidate must hold a valid US Passport and an FCC Restricted Radio Operator Certificate.
• Record: A clean flying history is essential; candidates must have no prior aviation incidents, accidents, or violations.
• Aircraft Expertise: Experience flying aircraft heavier than 12,500 lbs. at takeoff is required. Pilots must be prepared to fly three distinct aircraft types within the company fleet.

Preferred Experience

• Prior corporate flying experience is strongly preferred.
• Specific experience with the Challenger 604, Gulfstream G100, and/or King Air 350i is highly desirable.